If you want to sell community action (vaccination or climate change), don't put up a mansplainer talking science. Get an older women with technical leadership and high status to put the message of community solidarity and express anger at the opposition.
E.g. "My grandchildren have been vaccinated. But they might still be vulnerable because vaccines sometimes fail to fully protect. This isn't a problem if everyone is vaccinated because disease can't spread without many potential victims. Anti-vaxxers make all our children vulnerable. They provide enough vulnerable children to allow an epidemic, and some vaccinated children are effected. This is not about individual health, it is about community health. Everyone needs to get behind it."
For Climate Change she might say "Managing the climate is the community's responsibility. There has to be rational evaluation of what needs to be done, and that has to come from the scientific experts looking at all the data, not just a cool day in July. The community that counts is the whole world because we all share the same air. We need to be part of that community. People who don't get behind this shared effort are harming us all, and particularly our children"
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